Verse 1
But stranger far, and more profound
That first abasement of our God,
When with eternal glory crown’d
A Man to men himself he shew’d!
He laid his dazling robes aside,
His greatness and majestic grace,
And pleas’d with sinners to abide,
Put on our nature’s sordid dress.
Verse 2
Jehovah in our form appears
With frail humanity endued,
Washes his servants in his tears,
And purifies us by his blood;
Our souls immerst in guilt and clay
Are by his sacred flesh made clean,
He wipes our earthly minds away,
And all the filth of inbred sin.